Voluntary Organisations
About Voluntary Organisations
Johannesburg is blessed with a large corps of people ready to give their time and energy to make the city a better place.
This section offers a guide to where to get help for problems ranging from addiction to alcohol or narcotics, to reporting cases of animal cruelty, or making your neighbourhood safer from crime. It’s also the place to find how you can do your bit to help your fellow Joburgers to enrich their lives.
More categories will be added in the up coming months, and more organisations listed. If you would like your organisation profiled, email the webmaster with contact details.
Door of Hope
The Door of Hope was established in 1999 by a Baptist Church pastor, Sister Cheryl Allen. She looked after babies who were abandoned in the city’s parks and hospitals. The aim of the home is to find the biological or foster parents for the babies. The Door of Hope has three homes in Glenvista, Yeoville and Berea.
- Oliver Quambusch
- 15 Barbra Road, Glenvista
- 011 432 2913
- admindoh@netactive.co.za
Cotlands
Cotlands is a non-profit South African organisation that provides for orphaned and vulnerable children’s needs. Cotlands is currently active in six provinces, providing a full continuum of care to over 8 000 beneficiaries. Projects offer services ranging from community-based care through to residential care of vulnerable children between the ages of 0 and 12 years. Most of the children received have been neglected, abused, abandoned or are suffering from a life-threatening illness. Programmes include home-based care, early childhood development centres, toy libraries, food gardens, counselling, places of safety and end-stage palliative care for children with AIDS. The focus is to develop each child holistically, focusing on their health, educational and psychosocial needs.
- Dionne Jacobs
- 134 Stanton Street, Turffontein
- 011 683 7200
- 011 683 6688
- info@cotlands.org
Hearts of Hope
Hearts of Hope is a voluntary organisation that was started in 2001 by various Christian organisations and individuals. The organisation is aimed at giving hope to HIV/Aids orphans and vulnerable children. Hearts of Hope also has a family-based care programme which operates through schools, community support groups and individuals. The organisation aims to facilitate adoption into families and to source foster parents.
- Deborah van Dongen
- PO Box 742, Fourways
- 082 458 2677
- info@heartsofhope.org.za
Nkosi's Haven
Nkosi’s Haven is named after Nkosi Johnson, the young AIDS activist who passed away on International Children’s Day on June 1st 2001, who dearly wanted a facility that would care for the mom and her child. He had been separated from his mom because of the HIV diagnosis and he never wanted that to happen to any other child. He also wanted HIV positive people to be cared for without discrimination or prejudice.
Head Office
- Oscar Martin-Ngwenya
- 34 Vereeniging Service Street, Alan-Manor
- 011 942 5580
- 011 941 1408
- projects@nkosishaven.org.za
Johannesburg Branch
- 23 Mitchell Street, Berea
- 011 642 1733
- 011 642 0793